Gospel and the Land of Promise My colleague at Laidlaw Carey Graduate School (as our postgraduate consortium) is currently known) Phil Church is organising a one day colloquium on "Gospel and the Land of Promise" it is scheduled for 9th July 2009, and the call for papers is still open if you have a 20 minute presentation on this topic.

Phil writes:

The word for “land” is the fourth most common word in the Hebrew Bible, appearing several thousand times. On the other hand there are less than one hundred occurrences of the Greek word for “land” in the New Testament, and very few of these refer to the Land of Israel. The competing claims of the State of Israel and the Palestinian people to the “Land” depends in part on the biblical understanding of the notion of the Land of Promise, and calls for a biblical and theological response.

The keynote speaker is Dr Peter W.L. Walker (Tutor in New Testament & Biblical Theology) @ Wycliffe Hall, Oxford who "has written and lectured extensively on the questions of the Temple, the City of Jerusalem and the Land in the NT. He will give the keynote address and sum up at the end of the Day."

I suspect this is too far for those of you in the Northern Hemisphere to travel, though I am sure we could arrange hosting if you did ;)

PS: If any of you, especially any of you in the South Pacific region would like to post about this on your blogs you would not only make Phil happy (and so me happy) but you might help convince LCGS that it was time to uprgade their web presence now that we have entered the century of the Fruit Bat * ;)

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Very interesting! I hope I'm around! :)

By  Dale Campbell, at December 18, 2008 9:38 PM  

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